Posted on 12/14/2009 8:45:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Our country is in big trouble ... huge trouble. It is time that Americans took a hard look at our values, our conception of justice, and our standards for truth. This piece is intended as a first step in that direction.
1) Values
The story of Tiger Woods and his (now admitted) "infidelity" is everywhere. The Woods' story has piqued the prurient interests of America and the world. The story has dominated the mainstream media for days while the injustice being committed against our Navy Seals and the revelation of the computer code from the CRU (exposing the biggest hoax in the history of the world) have gotten scant attention.
Tiger Woods was on the cover of every magazine and tabloid that I saw while standing in line at the grocery store yesterday. Those publications and those stories are on the grocery stores' racks for a reason: Americans are buying them.
We are more interested in the private life of a guy whose claim to fame is that he can hit a little ball with a stick better than anyone else in the world (whoopee!) than we are about the destruction of our culture.
It is not Tiger Woods' moral values that concern me. (Celebrities of his stature face enormous temptations from all kinds of hustlers and harlots everyday of their lives.) It is the facts that while our freedoms and Constitution crumble before our eyes ... we are focused on Tiger and his bimbos.
This is our iniquity -- not Tiger's.
2) Justice
Meanwhile our politically correct military has arraigned two Navy Seals for allegedly punching Ahmed Hashim Abed in the lip. Abed was the terrorist who, several years ago, led the murder and the brutalization of the corpses of four Blackwater security people in Iraq.
Al Qaeda instructs its members how to claim and/or fake being tortured if a member of the terrorist organization is captured.
But Al Qaeda is not the real issue here. We are. America has become so politically correct that a terrorist/murderer/sadist, who bitches about his bloodied lip, might get some of the best and bravest men on this planet thrown into jail. Americans had better pay attention, and soon, to this nonsense.
Very special and highly trained military men, including these Navy Seals, are all who stand between a worldwide Islamic war of Jihad and you and me. If we do not rise up to defend these brave soldiers, and demand a full pardon and their immediate release, here is what will happen: Dedicated young men and women will refuse to put their lives on the line if a poke in the face, of someone who would kill them in a heartbeat, gets the soldiers time in the brig.
Would you take that job? Make those sacrifices? Put your life on the line? Would you complete your mission, catch the bad guy, and then be thrown into jail for your efforts? I wouldn't. No rational human being would.
Justice in the real world is not politically correct. "Pretty please" or "We respect your unmitigated desire (and efforts) to kill us" are not phrases that matter to a mass murderer. And the next time some whiny PC liberal tells me "We are better than they are," my reply is going to be, "Of course we are. That's why Ahmed Hashim Abed only got (allegedly) punched in the face. He wasn't shot in the head, beaten with sticks, burned, and hung on a bridge. How much better than they are do we have to be to make you happy?"
3) Truth
Since the release of the CRU documents that prove the fraud of the science behind man made global warming, Al Gore has said at least three times (Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun puts it at four) that the emails and information were all ten years old. This is a lie. It has been repeated again and again by Al Gore. Some of the emails are less than two months old. And dozens upon dozens are less than ten years old. And everyone -- but Al Gore -- knows it.
Watch the video of the CNN interview with Gore here. One reporter does say to Gore, as a kind of aside, "Some of them [the emails] were from ten years ago, but many of them were far more recent than that."
Gore ignores the statement. Neither of the two reporters further disputes Gore's "ten year old" fabrication. No follow-up challenge from the CNN reporters to Gore's out right lie. None.
The mainstream media has downplayed the significance of the CRU documents. The headline of a recent AP story proclaims that the science from the CRU was not faked. Really? As (among others) Marc Sheppard, Lord Monckton, and I have proven the CRU findings most certainly were doctored. The raw date was manipulated to "prove" that the world is exponentially warming. There is no doubt about this.
And still, the mainstream media has not challenged Al Gore on the blatant absurdity of his claim that the documents were at least ten years old and have no real impact on the AGW debate. CNN did ask him to recite his new poem on the impending doom of mother earth. See that video here. (But not if you have recently eaten a meal. You could lose it.)
John 8:32 states the following:
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
The corollary of this brilliant piece of scripture should also be written. It would go something like this:
If you ignore the lies, the lies will imprison you.
Wake up America. The time for the truth to set us free is growing very, very short.
-- Larrey Anderson is a writer, a philosopher, and submissions editor for American Thinker. He is the author of The Order of the Beloved, and the memoir, Underground: Life and Survival in the Russian Black Market.
Boy, this nails the core problem (imo).
One of my favorite verses: Isaiah 2:22 - Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
To many of us are trusting politicians, government, scientists, etc. etc.
” The Woods’ story has piqued the prurient interests of America and the world. “
‘The Woods’ story has piqued the prurient interests of the Media’
[There - fixed it]
Heard a bit of banter on F&F over the weekend, in which the airheads admitted that better than 70% of their audience didn’t want the Tiger Woods wall-to-wall coverage...
Their response?? “That’s too bad - we’re going to cover it anyway..”
In the meantime, the following IMPORTANT stories get little to no coverage :
* The CRU e-mail scandal at the University of East Anglia.
* The injustice being perpetrated on our Navy SEALS fighting terrorists who want to harm the USA.
“Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic but will they
keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the
memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path to destruction.”
Thomas Jefferson (on the free market/private property system they tried to leave us and the incredible wealth they knew it would allow us to produce and
what MIGHT happen to us as a result. The familiar vernacular expression today is “Fat, dumb and happy.”)
“A nation of well informed men, who have been taught to know and to prize the rights God has given them, cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.”
Benjamin Franklin
Woods is a manufactured image that bears little relation to reality. He is a walking, breathing lie that has been perpetrated on the public. The MSM and the PGA knew it was a lie, but they continued to support and reinforce it because it was good business. Many people were invested in those lies, i.e., they had something to gain.
It is very similar to the global warming hoax that has been foisted on the American people and the rest of the world. A small group of scientists and world leaders have compired to create this hoax out of various motives. The MSM has aided and abetted them by surpressing the opposition and publicizing false information for a gulible public. The opposition has been demonized and ridiculed.
Obama is a manufactured image that bears little relation to reality. Obama is a walking, breathing lie that has been perpetrated on the public. The MSM and the PGA knew it was a lie, but they continued to support and reinforce it because it was good business. Many people were invested in those lies, i.e., they had something to gain.
Agreed. Obama is just another Tiger Woods, except he doesn’t have the actual talent that Woods has. Woods is the greatest golfer in the world and perhaps of all time. Obama is a fraud with no real accomplishments.
Tiger Woods is a sinner. Sinning is “missing the mark,” and Tiger has apparently missed the mark of moral behavior at every possible opportunity. But Tiger is not evil. I think that if we can set aside a huge and massive appetite for inappropriate sex, Tiger is in some ways a good man.
As our president said in Oslo, there is evil in the world. He should know, because he embodies much of it. Although we should try as hard as we can to avoid having to kill him, our world will improve quite a lot when he leaves it. It’s great to read that Larrey Anderson has (finally???) recognized that sex scandals are the least of our worries.
True. Many Americans have been absent from the fight of our moral values.
Tiger Woods is only a sports figure who is extremely talented. He has to me, behaved himself with integrity everytime he steps on the course. This infidelity, he’s human just like everyone else. He had a flaw and it was women. The women who went after him (as I believe that was the case) should be met with more scrutiny than Woods. I’m sick of seeing lives ruined because some bimbos want to attach themselves to powerful, rich men, and many of them...married. I wanna see a return to the sanctity of marriage; a respect for it. There lies one of the major problems with America; people don’t respect marriage.
Not only does this culture not respect marriage, it cannot even define its meaning...
From Election Day 2008:
Jeremiah17:5-13. Here is 5-6.
5Thus says the Lord:
Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals
and make mere flesh their strength,
whose hearts turn away from the Lord.
6They shall be like a shrub in the desert,
and shall not see when relief comes.
They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness,
in an uninhabited salt land.
I sum it up in two words:
Commonsense & Patriotism
If we used commonsense we would not be in the pickle we are in and if we elected patriots(those who choose the country first and personal self-interest second) they would find ways to honor the Constitution and do what is best for country.
It’s media centric. THEY are the problem.
That’s what “humanism” does - it puts mere humans in positions of religious level of trust.
See tagline.
Those who reject the biblical worldview and call yourselves “Christians” are part of the problem. You can’t be friends with the world and its values and not be an enemy of God (James 4:4).
Leftists are “people of the Lie”...
He has a foul mouth and throws temper tantrums on the golf course. 99.9% of the PGA golfers behave with integrity when they are on the course.
This infidelity, he’s human just like everyone else. He had a flaw and it was women. The women who went after him (as I believe that was the case) should be met with more scrutiny than Woods. I’m sick of seeing lives ruined because some bimbos want to attach themselves to powerful, rich men, and many of them...married. <
That sounds like the "everybody lies about sex" refrain we heard during the Clinton/Monica affair. Sure, blame the women (Monica was a stalker), but the reality is that Woods was the one procuring the babes and he was the one acting from a position of power in these relaltionships. He is not the victim. Stop defending this billionaire serial adulterer. Woods deserves the overwhelming amount of blame for violating his marital vows, not the single women he attracted or bought.
I wanna see a return to the sanctity of marriage; a respect for it. There lies one of the major problems with America; people don’t respect marriage.
Distract and divert. Woods is the one who didn't respect the sanctity of marriage. This is not about the American people, it is about Lion Cheetah Tiger Woods.
I heard Tiger was changing his name to Cheetah. :)
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